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July 23, 2008

Reactor closer to landmark status

YAKIMA (AP) — The National Park System's advisory board has recommended designating a reactor at the Hanford nuclear reservation as a National Historic Landmark.

The “B” Reactor was the world's first full-scale nuclear reactor. It produced the plutonium for the first man-made nuclear blast and for the bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, during World War II.


 
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